Many shades of intolerance

My wife’s current bestie is hardly racist — indeed, Sarla would be shocked at the suggestion that she discriminates on the basis of colour — but the staff she employs all come from the hills. “They look clean,” she told my wife in a moment of candour, refusing, thereby, to be served by people of colour, or with racial distinctions such as those from the Northeast. Her work involves hiring people to serve in the hospitality industry, and she acknowledges that though remunerations are fixed, those with fairer skins are the first pick of companies, while those of a darker